ORIGINAL: Gray Beard
OK, here it is, a serious question. Yes, from me. Heat never seems to bother my engines, even on the days I think I'm camping out in front of the gates of hell. Do you guys think it more the humidity??Flying out on a lake bed when it's getting close to 120 and I don't change the tune at all but our average humidity this time of year is only about 6%.It just makes me wonder. High today was only 105 {normal} and 4% humidity.
It's the humidity, the day I was running my FS-120 the humidity was near 70% and the heat was 90*F. Combine that together and my engines don't seem to produce the same amount of horsepower that I would if the humidty and heat index was way lower. Any air cooled motor doesn't like heat and humidity. I didn't do a RPM or temp check, but I could feel the engine heat through my tru-turn a few minutes after running my engine. That doesn't normally happen in cooler weather.
I got a message for you Texas Boys, I got a call from the Devil and he told me to tell ya'll he wants his weather back.
I lived in Florida for 4 years and it's a different kind of heat. I could bare the heat and sun down in Florida, ( Lived off the coast) but the heat we've been feeling up here is terrible. I don't own a air conditioner except in my car. It was so bad I had to take a little road trip in my car in the middle of the night just to get a break fom it all for a while. When I turned on the air it hurt like heck until my body cooled down. In Florida outside jobs has cool breaks, in Liberal NY they never heard of such an idea.
My Father served in the South Pacific in WWII and he told me most times the heat was awful. Perfect Gin and Tonic weather he used to say.
Pete